
          Recd [Received] March 7th
ansd [Answered] March 19th

Botanic Garden & Nursery
Newburgh 4th March. 1835.

Dear Sir

The two copies of Dr. Gray's work on the grasses
(with which en passant I am delighted) came to me safely & in due
time. I expected that the river would have broken up & navigation
commenced before this time when I should have been in town & would
have paid my subscription price to Dr G. [Gray], as it is will you have 
the kindness to hand him the slip of paper on the last page of
this letter?

Do you receive the numbers of Hooker's "Journal of Botany" &
also of that French work the Archives de Botanique which you loaned
me a number or two of last season? When will your catalogue of
plants about N.Y. [New York] be out of press? Does Dr Gray spend the summer
season coming in the western part of this State? These are queries
which when you are so good as to write me again I should be much
gratified to hear answered.

Pray have you received any late news of Mr Nuttall? We ought 
to expect much from him though I am rather fearful that if his
route does not vary considerably from that of Mr D. [David] Douglass he will
not find so rich a harvest as this latter gentleman. Is it true as
I have heard that Young Mr McNab & his associate carried home
with them some new & very interesting sp [species] of plants from the northward
of this.
        